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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 26, 1864

Obituary Notices.

DIED in Ashfield, Mass., Jan. 3d, 1864, George Byron Edson, a child of Bro. and Sr. Marshall Edson aged five weeks and three days. This is the third babe they have been called to lay in the grave. The following verses composed for the occasion by Sr. S. J. Thayer were sung at the grave after brief services at the house of Bro. Edson.

Two little graves here side by side Were waiting for the Lord to come, To burst their fetters, open wide, And take the ransomed captives home.

And now to-day again we come; Another blossom bring we here; Short was its life—brief was its bloom, But soon in glory 'twill appear.

Dear sorrowing friends lift up your eyes; Let hope revive within each heart, The Saviour soon will rend the skies, And friends will meet—no more to part.

Blest shall these babes from henceforth be; Not long in slumber will they rest; The flock will soon the Shepherd see, The lambs be folded in his breast.

J. N. Loughborough.

Ashfield, Mass.

DIED Dec. 24th, 1863, in Matherton, Ionia co. Mich. after a severe sickness of one week with lung fever, our dear brother, Joseph A. Kellogg, aged 41 years. He leaves a wife, his aged parents, three brothers and a sister to mourn his loss. We believe he sleeps in Jesus, and at the sound of the last trump, he will come forth to glory, honor and eternal life. He embraced the truth a little over five years since, under the labors of Bro. J. B. Frisbie. From that time until his death, it was his great object to adorn the doctrine he professed with a well-ordered life and a godly conversation. The funeral service was attended at the school-house in this place. Eld. Mount, of the Methodist denomination, spoke to a sympathizing congregation from Rev. xiv, 13, making appropriate remarks from the text. We hope it may be the great object of the surviving friends to try to meet our departed brother when our Lord and Saviour shall come.

LEANDER KELLOGG.

Matherton, Jan. 12, 1864.

Died, in Lyme, N. H., Dec. 21, 1863, of consumption, Marinda G. Bartlett, aged 45 years.

She had been for eight years past a strong believer in the Advent doctrine. She leaves a large circle of relatives and friends to mourn her departure. Her last words were, "I'm going home, to die no more." She fell asleep in the full assurance of the blessed hope that Jesus was her friend, and that leaning on his arm she could pass through the valley of the shadow of death, and fear no evil.

H. N. HADLEY.

Died, in Green Co., Ills., of typhoid fever, after an illness of four weeks, our dear mother, Eunice Harmon, in the seventy-eighth year of her age.

She was converted when quite young, and united with the M. E. church, of which she continued a living member for forty years. In 1842 she embraced the faith of Jesus' soon coming, and chose to meet and worship with those of like precious faith. Since that time she continued to love the doctrine of the Lord's soon coming. For the last few years of her life, age and sickness weakened her once strong mind, and impaired her memory, yet she loved to dwell upon the theme of Jesus' soon coming.

For the last two weeks of her life she was a great sufferer; but in all her distress she was very patient, and often spoke of the goodness of God to her, and of her own unworthiness. She would say, "He is great and holy. He is all goodness. I am a poor, unworthy worm of the dust, yet the Lord is good to me."

She fell asleep as quiet as an infant in its mother's arms, without a struggle or groan. We cannot wish her back. Never was there a more kind and tender mother than she has been. She tried to bring up her children in the fear and admonition of the Lord. Her cares are over. Her weary head is at rest. Her quiet, immovable breast is heaved by affliction no more.

We believe she sleeps in Jesus, and we trust to meet her, if faithful, in the morn of the first resurrection, to die no more, but to enjoy life, everlasting life, in the kingdom of God.

SARAH B. BELDEN.